To this bleak list of words that have been used to sum up 2016, we must add another: dumb. Especially when it comes to the year in technology.

Even if you set aside the major tech storylines–from Trump’s tweets to Yahoo’s leaks–2016 was just plain weird. In the fullness of time, we may forget that it was the year that Facebook told many users (including Mark Zuckerberg) that they were dead. And Twitter suspended its own CEO. And Apple accidentally let key details slip of not one but two major products before they’d been unveiled on stage. But it all happened, and it deserves to be commemorated.

(Editor’s note: John Paul Titlow is alive and well.)

Herewith, a month-by-month chronology of moments in tech that were dumb, ill-advised, bizarre, or embarrassing–or, in more than a few cases, all of the above.

The camera never lies, but people do.
In Singapore, Nikon awards a prize to a striking black-and-white photo of a plane in the sky behind a ladder. When people point out that the aircraft was pasted in via a badly done Photoshop job, the camera giant apologizes and rescinds the honor.

Sounds disruptive.
Parker Conrad, cofounder and CEO of HR cloud-service provider Zenefits, resigns over issues relating to its compliance with state insurance laws. The company admits that employees used software, supposedly written by Conrad himself, to complete mandatory California online brokerage classes in less than the legally required amount of time.

Share first, think later.
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz fires his communications director for sharing a video of fellow candidate Marco Rubio on Facebook and claiming that it includes Rubio saying that there “weren’t many answers” in the Bible. In actuality, the Florida senator had said that the Good Book includes “all the answers.”

Alt-right automaton.
Tay, a Microsoft AI chatbot experiment designed to talk like a teenager, goes horribly awry after she falls in with a bad crowd on Twitter that quickly teaches her to spout racist venom.

Cool!
The Coolest Cooler, a high-tech ice chest that raised a record-breaking $13 million on Kickstarter, can’t afford to send backers their coolers–so it sells them on Amazon to raise cash while asking backers to send more money to get the products they were promised.

Keep on Troncin’.
Tribune Publishing, the venerable owner of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angels Times, changes its name to Tronc, gives itself a logo with a 1980s vibe, and declares itself to be “a content curation and monetization company focused on creating and distributing premium, verified content across all channels.” On Twitter, hilarity ensues.

Not anti-semitic–pro-sheriff.
On Twitter, Donald Trump shares an anti-Hillary Clinton image–apparently originated by a creator of racist memes–featuring a pile of cash and a Star of David. Though his campaign pulls the graphic and replaces it with a de-starred version, it also denies that it was anti-Semitic, maintaining that the meme merely showed a “basic star” such as those worn by sheriffs.

What a weiner.
Golden State Warrior Draymond Green posts a public photo of his private parts to Snapchat. After claiming that he was hacked–the standard explanation in such situations–he later admits that he goofed.

Sometimes sneaky, anonymous pride is the best pride of all.
In a New York Times op-ed, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel says he’s “proud” to have funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker, which ends up forcing the shuttering of the gossip blog and the sale of its sister media properties. Thiel waged his vendetta for years, in secret, until it was uncovered by Forbes in May.

It’s not like it was a secret or anything.
Apple prematurely tweets about a major new iPhone 7 feature–its water-resistant design–before the company has revealed it onstage at its San Francisco media event.

The only good predictions are the ones you don’t make.
A Forbes tech writer helpfully explains that not only is the idea that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 forbidden on airplanes a misperception, but that the phone won’t be kept off planes in the future, either: “There is no ban. There will not be a ban.” Within weeks, taking one on board an aircraft becomes a federal crime.

Everybody loves frogs.
Donald Trump, Jr., uses Instagram to share a “Deplorables” meme that features, among others, himself, his father, and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. It also depicts Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character adopted and popularized by anti-Semites on Twitter. Trump, Jr., says he’s “honored” by the image.

Over 500 million disserved.
Yahoo, which is in the process of being acquired by Verizon, discloses that it believes a state-sponsored hacker has stolen information associated with a half billion of its user accounts, including names, email addresses, and security questions. The New York Times later reports that the company had been slow to implement tighter security for fear of making its products harder to use.

You too may be a lucky winner.
In 2013, Business Insider reveals, Microsoft tried to keep its still-unannounced Xbox One secret by hiding secret prototypes where nobody would think to look for them: in a shipping facility. The strategy led the company to accidentally send one to a guy who’d ordered a laptop.

Sometimes the apple falls very, very far from the tree.
At the first general-election presidential debate, while discussing cybersecurity, Donald Trump praises the computer skills of his 10-year-old son Barron: “He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable.”

Silk Road redux.
Facebook members use the social network’s new Craiglist-esque Marketplace feature to hawk animals, weapons, and drugs. The company says it created technology to police such postings, but that a glitch prevented it from operating properly.

Déjà vu all over again.
Samsung recalls the Galaxy Note 7 and gives customers new units that it says solve the exploding-battery problem. But one of the replacement phones catches on fire on a Southwest flight. Other replacement Notes also, um, flame out.

No, no, no–it’s her jeans that are acid-washed.
During the second presidential debate, Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of having “acid washed” emails on her notorious private server. The charge apparently stems from her team having deleted messages using something called BleachBit, which is a software utility rather than a tiny vat of acid.

If the Galaxy Note 7 is outlawed, only outlaws will have the Galaxy Note 7.
Samsung issues a takedown notice for a YouTube video depicting its Galaxy Note 7 phone as a usable weapon within a modded version of Grand Theft Auto V.

The walking racist dead.
Microsoft apologizes for the subject line of a promo email for its Dead Rising 4 game–which, though meant to sound like a moaning zombie, comes out sounding like it might be a racial slur.

Autonomous yes, driving no.
For its splashy San Francisco product launch, Chinese gadget maker LeEco builds a giant ramp, anticipating that its upcoming autonomous car will drive itself onstage. Instead, the company’s CEO explains at length, one of its models got into an accident on its way to the event and the other was delayed after making a cameo appearance during the filming of a new Transformers movie. (At a similar event in April, reported BuzzFeed, a “self-driving” car had been piloted by remote control.)

Razer-sharp wit.
The guys at gaming computer maker Razer try to tweet a clever shot at Apple’s new MacBook Pro. “You call yourself Pro? S my D,” the tweet goes, pointing to the laptop’s lack of an SD card slot. After scores of users, many female, complain, the company says that it merely wanted to point out that its machines do have SD slots.

They rinse and spin, they rumble and roll, they flip their lids and blow a hole through the wall.
Samsung recalls washers that may damage their surroundings and/or injure their owners. The top-loading models are part of the Korean giant’s explosive 2016 product line, but the real explosion comes when the owner of the blown-up device hears that no refund is forthcoming.

But that 1.8% chance of the exact opposite happening is a doozy.
One day before the U.S. presidential election, the Huffington Post declares that the odds are 98.2% that Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump, and that her victory will be “substantial.”

The intolerant among you should get the hell out.
After Donald Trump’s surprise victory, GrubHub’s CEO sends an email to employees decrying Trump as a hateful anti-immigrant nationalist, saying that GrubHub will fight for the dignity of any worker who feels scared, and ordering those who disagree to tender their resignations by return email. He later clarifies that he was not demanding that anyone who voted for Trump must quit.

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All publicity is good publicity, except for terrible publicity.
Irate over the election results, the CEO of security startup PacketSled takes to Facebook and threatens to personally assassinate President-elect Trump. He apologizes, says he was joking (and drinking), and then–say it with me now–resigns.

On the bright side, autocorrect silently fixed a number of other equally embarrassing typos.
It’s revealed that Clinton campaign manager’s John Podesta’s email was hacked after an aide called a phishing attack “a legitimate email” in a message. He had meant to say “an illegitimate email,” but his error prompted Podesta to click on a rogue link that led to the breach of the Democratic National Committee. The messages that got leaked as a result, via Wikileaks, often dominated coverage of the Clinton campaign.

Reality-show host/president elect/security guru.
President-elect Trump plays down the FBI’s and CIA’s suspicion that Russian hackers interfered with the U.S. election by breaking into DNC email servers–even arguing that it would be “very hard” to find the identity of the hackers without catching them in the act. Real security experts are quick to disagree.

Double or nothing.
Less than three months after disclosing a leak of information on a half billion of its users–called the worst hack ever at the time–Yahoo reveals an earlier breach, in 2013, that affected a billion users. It says it believes that the same state-sponsored hackers were responsible in both instances. And this time around, unlike after the first disclosure, it forces users to change their passwords.